mining production of Coltan and Cassiterite. While such small scale mining was important, he said, it led to stakeholders neglecting other naturally occurring minerals. "Rwanda has been blessed with ...

Biodiversity is at its most vulnerable in conflict zones. View five examples of how nature conservation can help prevent and ...

The DRC is the world's largest producer of cobalt, with about 70 percent of the world's deposits of the mineral essential for the production of batteries for electric cars ...

Mining ministry says gold, gemstones and granite will be the first batch of minerals to be exported after value addition.

The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has protested the US labelling of child labour in mines, with Kinshasa saying the ...

By Dieudonné Ndanezerewe The announcement of tin and coltan deposits potentially worth tens of billions of dollars ...

On Sept. 30, Bintou Keita, head of the UN mission in Congo, told the UN Security Council that M23 rebels in the east are generating $300 000 per month in revenues in a coltan-mining region they ...

Prospecting and exploration of strategic minerals such as uranium and cobalt is, however, being approved on case-by-case basis guided by Mining (Strategic Minerals) Regulations, 2017. Minerals that ...

A U.S. congressional watchdog has found no evidence that a 2012 Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) conflict minerals ...